Gave his life for refugees from Sørøya i Finnmark.The year is 1945. The convoys going between the US East Coast and Murmansk with provisions and equipment. War coatings towards the end and evacuation of Finnmark progress. The US registered Liberty ship SS Henry Bacon lose touch with the rest of the convoy in the storm. The ship had 19 Norwegians from Sørøya in Finnmark aboard. It is attacked by 23 pieces of Luftwaffe German Junkers Ju 88. Five aircraft was brought down in the game. All Finnmark was put in the only lifeboat and rescued. The ship was sunk.
A few days later ran the twenty-year-old Mason Kirby Burr ashore at Klubbukt Kvalsund Municipality. He was one of the crew that there was no room in the lifeboat. He was killed instantly by shrapnel.

Today, this modest memorial outside in Klubbukt Kvalsund Municipality. A memory of a hero who died on 23 February 1945 and drifted ashore here. Mason Kirby Burr was one of the crew of the Liberty ship SS Henry Bacon.
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Wikipedia about SS Henry Bacon:
SS «Henry Bacon» was a US registered Liberty Ship and the last Allied ships sunk by the German Luftwaffe during World War II. By sinking in the Barents Sea on 23 February 1945 died 22 crew members and seven members of the United States Navy Armed Guard. Aboard the ship were also Norwegian refugees from Sørøya in Finnmark, for her contribution to these, the ship’s master, Alfred Carini the Norwegian War Cross postmortem.
SS «Henry Bacon» was built, launched and delivered from a US shipyard within a few months the fall of 1942, a common construction for the series-produced «Liberty ships». The ship went in convoy between the US East Coast and Murmansk and in January 1945 it was in Murmansk where SS «Henry Bacon» was commissioned to lead 19 Norwegian civilians who were evacuated from Finnmark to Murmansk by US destroyers to Britain. The ship had a civilian crew supplemented by officers and crew belonging to the US Navy. On our way to Scotland came SS «Henry Bacon» out for bad weather and suffered a rudder. The ship came away from the convoy.
It was attacked by 23 German Junkers Ju 88, but managed to shoot down five German planes before the ship was torpedoed. The attack had destroyed all but one lifeboat. The master Alfred Carini ordered the Norwegian civilians in this. Some of the ship’s civilian crew got remaining seats in the lifeboat.
Telegraphist Earnal «Spud» Campbell was ordered in the lifeboat in an attempt to obtain radio contact with the convoy ships, which succeeded, so everyone in the lifeboat were rescued. The master Carini, 21 other sailors and seven members of the US Navy who was left on SS «Henry Bacon,» was killed. British destroyers managed to rescue 25 crew who had to jump into the sea. Carini was last seen on the ship’s bridge.
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Dette er bilde av SS Henry Bacon tatt i 1943 iflg teksten på bildet This is the picture of SS Henry Bacon made in 1943 according to the text of the image

Nearly two years ago I came across this memorial, a hundred yards from a gravel road, leading nowhere off the coast of Finnmark, northern-Norway. On the memorial it read: Mason Burr, hero of the SS Henry Bacon, only twenty years old. On the backside it read; these are some of the dramas of the evacuation of Finnmark, 1944. After finding this memorial I couldn’t quite rest, so I asked one of the old timer locals from Klubbukt, where this memorial was raised. He could tell me the memorial was in memory of a Sailor of an American navy ship. Further study led me to the story of the SS Henry Bacon, the last of the libery class frigates that was sunk by the Luftwaffe in WW2. From what I have gathered sailor Burr remained on station after the evacuation was ordered from the sinking SS Henry Bacon. He was hit by shrapnel and died instantly. The SS Henry bacon carried Norwegian civilians who had refused to evacuate Finnmark, staying behind in hiding in the freezing winter months. The SS Henry Bacon carried civilians from the Island of Sørøya, near to where I am from to safety. The gunners of the SS Henry Bacon took with it 5 luftwaffe planes. The body of sailor Burr washed ashore in Klubbukt, Finnmark and was sent overseas, to be burried at Arlington. A local, unknown who – raised the memorial in sailor Burrs memory. This story has touched me deeply, its a very vivid reminder of the horrors of war and the incredible sacrifice of the sailors of the SS Henry Bacon. For the sacrifice of Sailor Burr and the crew of the SS Henry Bacon – Thank you – your sacrifice will not be forgotten, flowers will be put down every year in memory of the heroes of the SS Henry Bacon. /Private Holm
– Mads Holm

Følg denne veien i 3,2 km så ligger minnesmerket et steinkast fra veien mot havet.(På venstre siden av veien) Follow this road for 3.2 km as is the memorial a stone’s throw from the road to the sea. (On the left side of the road)